Posts Tagged ‘forum’
Taking Stock of 2010: Carbon Innovators Network
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on December 10th, 2010
| 15 December , 2010 | ||
| 4:30 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
Throughout 2010, our response to climate change has often felt like being on a roller coaster. But is it all bad news? To examine the implications of the past years’ events, the Carbon Innovators Network is hosting Taking Stock – our end of year event that will look back on 2010 and consider what next year might achieve.
Taking Stock will include a panel of leading practitioners with scientific, regulatory, policy, business and communications backgrounds to stimulate a moderated discussion chaired by Kinesis Director Nick Rowley.
The panel for Taking Stock will include:
• John Merritt: CEO of the EPA Vic, Victoria’s environmental regulator.
• Rebecca Falkingham: Director Policy and Projects, Victorian Office of Climate Change and one of the leading contributors to the development of the Victorian Government’s Climate Change White Paper.
• Liz Minchin: author of the book Screw Light Bulbs: Smarter Solutions for Australia’s Future, which offers positive, credible answers to how Australia can get serious about tackling climate change.
• Mike Raupach: Fellow at the Australian Academy of Science and one of the lead authors of the Academy’s The Science of Climate Change, Questions and Answers publication.
• Bruce Donnison: General Manager of Sustainability at Fonterra, the world’s leading exporter of dairy products responsible for more than a third of the international dairy trade.
We want to hear from you too! To help guide the event, we are seeking your response as a Carbon Innovators Network member to a series of questions about climate change in 2010. Your response to these questions will help guide and inform the session – check out the online forum for the questions.
15 December 2010 – 4:30pm – 6:30pm, The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Website for more details and to RSVP: www.carboninnovators.net.au/events/taking-stock
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Public Transport Forum
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on October 21st, 2010
| 27 October , 2010 | ||
| 7:15 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Source: Sustainability News
Got a question you’d like put to the panel? Send an email with the question you’d like put to the panel of MLCs – northernquestions@pt4me2.org.au Questions will be also taken from the audience on the night.
http://pt4me2.blogspot.com/2010/10/community-q-about-public-transport-what.html
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Local Food Forum + Open Space Session
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on September 22nd, 2010
| 23 October , 2010 | ||
| 10:30 am | to | 4:00 pm |
Food for Thought with guest speaker Kirsten Larsen from the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL)
You are invited to attend a forum on local food in Preston! The first half of the day is a forum to set the scene for local food in Preston. Our guest speakers will tell us about what climate change and the end of cheap oil means for food, how people in Darebin are faring with food security, and what the City of Darebin, and community groups, are doing about these issues. Over lunch you can meet some of the groups in our area who are involved in exciting food-related projects before participating in an ‘Open Space’ session to explore the question: how will Preston feed itself over the next twenty years?
Please RSVP by the 9th of October – the website has registration details.
Saturday 23 October, Preston Shire Hall 10:30-4:00
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Sustainability National Forum: SIRF Rt
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on August 24th, 2010
The first ever SustainAbility National Forum will be held at Bayview on the Park in Melbourne. Comprising a full day of learning and networking under one roof, experts and practitioners will present big picture vision and practical case studies in the area of sustainability.
Tuesday September 7
Speakers:
Keynote: Professor John Thwaites, Climate Works Australia: Low Cost Carbon Roadmap for Australia
Olivia Tyler, Global Environment Manager, Fosters Group: Sustainability creates commercial value
David Wait, Data Facilities manager at Insurance Australia Group (IAG): “Put your Jacket On! Rationalising heating and cooling
Jürgen Schneider, Regional General Manager, Siemens Ltd, Victoria and South Australia: Picture the Future
Kiam Yoong, Environmental Sustainability Manager, Zoos Victoria: Making your Engagement last!
Dan Atkins, Co-founder and Managing Director of Shaper Group: The New Business Model
Geoff Lawyer, Director, Complete Colour Printing: “For the Good of All” – employee engagement that works!
Bjoern Wilhelms, Department Manager Corporate Sustainability, Australian Arrow Pty Ltd: Visualising Sustainability
Michael Cox, Program Manager Sustainability Victoria: 5 Star Sustainability
Visit the website for more information and to register.
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Designing Innovation: Social Innovator Dialogues
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on June 28th, 2010
Source: The Australian Centre for Social Innovation
The Australian Centre for Social Innovation, in collaboration with the Centre for Social Impact and the Australian Social Innovation Exchange invite you to join us for the inaugural Social Innovator Dialogues. The Social Innovator Dialogues aim to bring internationally renowned leaders in social innovation together with local changemakers and challenge us to think differently about the big issues affecting our communities and to test practical ways to integrate innovative approaches into our responses to unmet social needs.
This July for our Designing Innovation tour, we’re bringing leading thinker, Ezio Manzini, to our shores for masterclasses and free public forums that look at where social innovation, design and sustainability meet. Ezio is perhaps best known for his skills in practical scenario building towards solutions that encompass both environmental and social quality and the Designing Innovation tour will give you the opportunity to engage with him on both the theory and practice of building socially innovative responses.
July 14 Free Public Forum: Small, local, open, connected
The only sustainable way to get out of the current global financial and ecological crisis is to promote new economic models, new production systems and new ideas of wellbeing. To define and implement these new models is, of course, very difficult. But it is not impossible. And we do not have to start from zero. What is the meaning of locality and community today? Can localities and communities be designed? How can bottom-up initiatives positively interplay with top-down ones? For discussion on these questions and more, register and come along to the Designing Innovation Public Forum. The forum will be half lecture, half Q&A.
July 14 Melbourne Masterclass: Next economy – enabling sustainable ways of living
This masterclass will explore how the interplay between social and technical innovation is opening up brand new opportunities. How can we conceive and deliver “enabling solutions”? How can individuals, businesses, institutions, associations and communities collaborate in the framework of viable business models to support sustainable ways of living? This masterclass is for policy-makers and practitioners who are interested in sustainability, social innovation and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Attendees will have the opportunity to workshop some of these ideas and approaches, including how to reframe problems to inspire creative thinking about solutions, as well as understanding how ‘design thinking’ can help us experiment and prototype.
Places are limited so please visit the website for more detailed information and to register for your place.
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After Copenhagen: MSSI Public Forum
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on February 17th, 2010
Toolbox for Environmental Change 2010: Forum
Posted in Movements by Kate Archdeacon on February 15th, 2010
After a decade of action assisting teachers and educators, Victoria’s premier sustainability education forum ‘Toolbox for Environmental Change’ continues to motivate sustainable development in school communities. The 2010 Toolbox will officially launch ResourceSmart Schools and develop attitudes and skills inspiring teachers, students, educators, community partners and school administration to act locally addressing global climate change issues. Forum outcomes will assist Victorians develop more sustainable communities with schools acting as community hubs.
The 2010 forum will explore:
* Action-based learning and teaching tools
* Case studies implemented in schools
* Whole school strategic planning (for teachers, principals and bursars)
* Youth Leadership
* Multidisciplinary curriculum outcomes supporting VELS
Workshops include:
* green technologies in schools (energy,water,waste)
* resource savings create financial savings
* agriculture and biodiversity
* youth leadership
* ecological footprints
* connections to nature
* indigenous perspectives
* arts and sustainability
* sustainable food gardens
* curriculum
* whole school planning for teachers and administrators
* school case studies
* RSS AuSSI Vic
Date: Thursday 18 March 2010
Time: 9am – 5pm, Registrations from 8:15am
Where: Melbourne Museum
Cost: $120 (GST incl) includes resources, lunch & refreshments
For more information, & to register, visit the website.
Greening Australia, Sustainability Victoria and Melbourne Museum are partnering to deliver the forum sponsored by Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and supported by Victorian Association for Environmental Education.
Rewrite The Future: Climate Conversations
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on February 11th, 2010
Source: Climate Action Calendar
Has the political debate left you unsure about climate change? About your role in responding to it? Do we have the solutions needed? How can we make the necessary changes? Hear from respected climate scientist David Karoly and other experts, then join local residents and community groups for interactive discussion on climate change and our options and priorities for a sustainable future.
This forum aims to inform people about the issue of climate change and solutions for effective mitigation as well as facilitate participants’ contribution to a discussion about priorities for action. It is intended for people who are concerned about climate change but are confused by the current debate; those who wish to know more about the solutions and options for effective mitigation of further climate change; and those who would like to move from interest to action on climate related issues.
Thu 18 Feb, 6 – 9pm
Chandelier Room, Hawthorn Town Hall, Burwood Road, Hawthorn.
All members of the community are invited to attend.
Local community groups are also invited and space for a display will be made available.
Entry by gold coin donation
Organic refreshments provided courtesy of the City of Boroondara.
RSVP Fiona Armstrong 0438 900 005 or fiona-armstrong@bigpond.com
Organised by climate action group Lighter Footprints
This event is part of the Sustainable Living Festival www.slf.org.au/calendar
Earth Matters Climate Change Forum
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on June 26th, 2009
Source: Melbourne School of Land and Environment, Newsletter #16
Image: @dino via Flickr
Saturday August 8th 12.45pm-5.30pm
The Earth Matters Climate Change Forum will run again this year in Ballarat. The Forum will provide expert knowledge and information for the Ballarat community to take personal action on dealing with Climate Change impacts – such as changing weather patterns, rising energy and living costs and reduced rainfall. Tickets are now available.
The National Sustainable Events Key Forum & Expo
Posted in Events by Ferne Edwards on January 28th, 2009
The National Sustainable Events Key Forum & Expo is a dedicated conference focusing on leading sustainable event practice. The program will challenge how we look at event production and how sustainability is quickly becoming the main event. To register visit http://www.slf.org.au/register.
